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A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 1
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A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 3
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 4
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 5
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 6
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 7
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 8
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 9
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 10
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 11
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 12
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 13
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 14
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 15
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 16
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 17
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 18
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 19
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 20
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 21
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 22
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 23
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 24
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 25
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 26
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 27
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 28
A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals image 29
Property from a Hawaiian Collection by Descent through the Family, Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1960s
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A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch
Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals

Fine Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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A blue and white porcelain meiping with birds on branch

Wang Bu (1896-1968), with two seals
Carefully potted with a rolled rim to the short neck and a body of elongated pear form spreading outward above the foot, painted in well-controlled shades of cobalt with two chicks resting on gnarled tree branches that extend from the neck to the foot, the seal Wang Bu in seal script written to the lower right of the branches and the seal yuan wen wu guo zhi zhai written in seal script to the base beneath a lustrous glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad.
6 3/4in (17cm) high

Footnotes

For small vases of similar subject matter by the artist, see Simon Kwan, Chinese Porcelain of the Republic Period, 2008, no. 89, pp. 236-7, with the same Wang Bu seal and the six-character studio mark written in a straight line to the base ( 21.4cm high, as 1920-1935); and no. 90, pp. 237-8, the six-character studio seal written in similar seal script characters to the base (15.3cm high, as 1920-1935).

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